Early Literacy Assessments Early literacy assessments are a critical part of a student’s success in English Language Arts and other subject areas in school. By partaking in a series of assessments during primary grade levels, educators are able to detect if a students will need support in order to have a greater opportunity at academic success during later years of schooling. The ability to read, comprehend and utilize basis reading strategies (vocabulary, questioning, retelling, predicting or summarization) will assist in a student’s progression academically and in daily life.
Summary
“The Role of Early Literacy Assessments” (Rabinowitz et al., 2002), explores the idea that assessments should be “systematic, coherent and reliable”(p. …show more content…
Standardized/ groups assessments are the general type of assessments given to students, these in some states start as early as third grade. These assessments are utilized to establish a student’s place and determine if a student is performing at grade appropriate level expectations and in many instances are not useful for the “individual” student. According to John Salvia et al. (2016), the results of such assessment can vary because of the socioeconomic, culturally or linguistically factors of a student 's, and these imbalances will aid in the lack of reliability in standardized/group assessment (p.50). Therefore the use of standardize/ group assessment on primary grade levels has a higher rate at being erroneous and lack validity because these assessments do not accommodate the development of a young learner (Rabinowitz et al., 2002). More importantly, the results of these assessments lack validity because of the time frame the scores are given back. In essence the scores for younger may not be reflective of that student’s needs by the time the scores are released. Lastly, the stigma associated with standardized/group testing can be detrimental to true performance of young students and the academic achievement of students should not solely depend on one assessment. The result of these types of assessments can negatively …show more content…
Literacy is at the forefront of career and college readiness and students who do not receive assistance with their struggles in literacy are at greater chance of not excelling. The article “Understanding Young Readers: The Role of Early Literacy Assessment” (Rabinowitz et al., 2002) addresses that assessments should be done meticulously and as early as possible to ensure that all preventive measures are taken for a student to succeed. More importantly, the article outlines “authentic characteristics” (Rabinowitz et al., 2002, p.7) of literacy assessments which include engaging passages for students, questions and responses that are board to ensure that students are able to answer with flexibility, and consideration for the student as for construction of the assessment. After reading this article, I considered my own use of assessments in my classroom and how they impact students with disabilities. After reviewing our ELA department protocol, I found it strange that we did not administer running records, as an authentic literacy assessment. My previous year of teaching running records were given three times a year to ensure accuracy and for teachers to observe students, playing close attention to a student’s fluency, retelling ability and to provide us with insight about the student. The article focused on many
Summary
“The Role of Early Literacy Assessments” (Rabinowitz et al., 2002), explores the idea that assessments should be “systematic, coherent and reliable”(p. …show more content…
Standardized/ groups assessments are the general type of assessments given to students, these in some states start as early as third grade. These assessments are utilized to establish a student’s place and determine if a student is performing at grade appropriate level expectations and in many instances are not useful for the “individual” student. According to John Salvia et al. (2016), the results of such assessment can vary because of the socioeconomic, culturally or linguistically factors of a student 's, and these imbalances will aid in the lack of reliability in standardized/group assessment (p.50). Therefore the use of standardize/ group assessment on primary grade levels has a higher rate at being erroneous and lack validity because these assessments do not accommodate the development of a young learner (Rabinowitz et al., 2002). More importantly, the results of these assessments lack validity because of the time frame the scores are given back. In essence the scores for younger may not be reflective of that student’s needs by the time the scores are released. Lastly, the stigma associated with standardized/group testing can be detrimental to true performance of young students and the academic achievement of students should not solely depend on one assessment. The result of these types of assessments can negatively …show more content…
Literacy is at the forefront of career and college readiness and students who do not receive assistance with their struggles in literacy are at greater chance of not excelling. The article “Understanding Young Readers: The Role of Early Literacy Assessment” (Rabinowitz et al., 2002) addresses that assessments should be done meticulously and as early as possible to ensure that all preventive measures are taken for a student to succeed. More importantly, the article outlines “authentic characteristics” (Rabinowitz et al., 2002, p.7) of literacy assessments which include engaging passages for students, questions and responses that are board to ensure that students are able to answer with flexibility, and consideration for the student as for construction of the assessment. After reading this article, I considered my own use of assessments in my classroom and how they impact students with disabilities. After reviewing our ELA department protocol, I found it strange that we did not administer running records, as an authentic literacy assessment. My previous year of teaching running records were given three times a year to ensure accuracy and for teachers to observe students, playing close attention to a student’s fluency, retelling ability and to provide us with insight about the student. The article focused on many